I mean, I get the need for teh word, but I've just hit three fics in a row where it showed up practically every sentence and was sending me to the back button.
I've had similar reactions to an over abundance of "I love you" as well as the term "lover" in fic. For me, it was the "show, not tell," thing: writers using these words/terms rather than convincing me the people actually were in love (and sometimes with body language and actions that suggest love isn't quite the word for it).
And when characters someone hasn't convinced me are in love use words like this *all the time"? Creepy, which I'm sure isn't the intended reaction.
I don't understand. I DON'T UNDERSTAND. I can recall using that word in writing exactly one time in the past... I don't know... ever, and it's totally someone joking around and being like, "Who's your lov-aaaah?"
I've just started reading you (because you threw your hat in the advisory board ring), and this post just knocked me sideways. I thought it was just me!
(Mind you, I'm now guilty of it occasionally in my writing as well, but that's because I started dating someone who honestly calls me "lover" in normal conversation; it's creeping into my vocabulary... Make it stop...)
Occasional usage is okay, but it drives me utterly bugfuck in most of the universes I read and write in as it's just not a word that makes sense with the worldviews involved.
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I'm also reminded of a Doonesbury from ages ago before Joanie and Rick got married, when she was struggling to come up with a name for him.
Joanie: He's my, um, my...
Lacey: Your young man, dear.
Joanie: That would be it.
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I mean, I get the need for teh word, but I've just hit three fics in a row where it showed up practically every sentence and was sending me to the back button.
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And when characters someone hasn't convinced me are in love use words like this *all the time"? Creepy, which I'm sure isn't the intended reaction.
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What was the tipping point?
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When is that ever a good noun to use? Like ever?
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Well said, lover.
*smirk*,*duck*
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(Mind you, I'm now guilty of it occasionally in my writing as well, but that's because I started dating someone who honestly calls me "lover" in normal conversation; it's creeping into my vocabulary... Make it stop...)
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Occasional usage is okay, but it drives me utterly bugfuck in most of the universes I read and write in as it's just not a word that makes sense with the worldviews involved.